The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

I try to end every chapter with an air of suspense. I try to leave the reader wanting to turn the page.

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.